A Los Angeles couple who has everything but can’t have children agrees to adopt the unborn child of a poor, Louisiana couple who has four kids but can barely support them. The couples’ desperate choices lead to an insightful, poignant and, often funny, drama that challenges the audience’s views on poverty, adoption and disparity between the classes.

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Jane Anderson (Playwright) is an American actress-turned-award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director. She has written and directed one feature film, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, and wrote the script for the Nicolas Cage film It Could Happen to You. Prior to film directing, Anderson wrote and directed several critically acclaimed television movies, notably Normal starring Stockard Channing and Laura Dern; The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom; Egyptian Pyramids starring Holly Hunter, and If These Walls Could Talk 2 (segment “1961”), which won Vanessa Redgrave an Emmy for her portrayal of an elderly lesbian, prevented from being in the hospital with her dying long-time companion. She became a writer for the AMC television drama Mad Men for the show’s second season.

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